God Explains to Patriarch Athanasios the Fall of Constantinople: I. S. Peresvetov and the Impasse of Political Theology
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2013
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Petre Guran, « God Explains to Patriarch Athanasios the Fall of Constantinople: I. S. Peresvetov and the Impasse of Political Theology », École française d’Athènes
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This article deals with the story of the departure and ascension of the divine light from Saint Sophia reported by Nestor Iskander in The Tale of Constantinople, a text which is the main source for the fall of Constantinople in 16th-century Slavonic historiography. The publication of this Tale under the name of I.S. Peresvetov together with three other texts, The Tale of the Books, The Tale of Mehmet Sultan and the Big Supplication (the Dialogue with Petru the Wallachian Voevod) uncovers the ideological significance of the reconstructed narrative of the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and sheds a new light on the miraculous omen. Through comparison with Greek and Western accounts of the last days of Constantinople and with the iconographic theme of the Fall of Constantinople in Moldavian mural paintings, I assess the origin and the role of the miracle-story in the narrative of Nestor Iskander, its historicity and its ideological meaning.
